Union leaders and Democratic members of Congress are hailing a Federal court judge’s decision issued late Thursday to uphold a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and its orchestration of Federal agency firings of their probationary employees – and language in the decision that finds OPM’s actions were likely unlawful. […]

A group of Democratic state attorneys general is asking a Federal district court judge in Rhode Island to fully enforce the court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) issued on Jan. 31 that blocked President Trump’s attempted freeze of most Federal grant and loan funding.   […]

A Federal court judge in Rhode Island issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Jan. 31 that blocks the Trump administration and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from freezing payments of trillions of dollars from government grant and loan programs – at least as it regards the 22 states and the District of Columbia that petitioned the court to do so.   […]